NASA has announced potential plans to recover rock samples from Mars. Scientists will investigate whether there is extraterrestrial life on the Red Planet. Bringing back the Perseverance rover, which ...

The Mars2020 Perseverance Rover took about 8 years to complete here on Earth. Built at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in ...

A collection of Martian rocks could reveal details about potential past life on the Red Planet – but first NASA has to get ...

NASA recently deemed this situation unacceptable. In April 2024, agency chief Bill Nelson announced that an overhaul of the ...

Option one would use the same "sky crane" landing system proven with NASA's Curiosity and Perseverance Mars rovers, a smaller sample collection spacecraft, a smaller rocket to boost the samples ...

The study of ancient lava formations on Mars is the most complete to date from a series of observations conducted on the ...

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson left a final decision on a new mission architecture to the next NASA administrator working ...

An exploding budget and an unraveling schedule spell disappointment for NASA's mission to learn more about Mars's history.

American space agency NASA announced it is looking at two ways of landing hardware on Mars for the Sample Return mission, ...

Perseverance and Curiosity (rovers) on Mars. The other is to leverage options from industry.” The first option will rely on the sky crane method, used for the entry descent and landing of the ...

The second option would include a landing system developed ... bring these samples back from Mars with significant cost and schedule saving," Nelson said. As for Perseverance, the rover's hunt ...